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Title: First Nations


1
First Nations
  • Inquiry Project

2
Human History
  • The events of human history are intrinsically
    linked to the complexities of geography
  • climate,
  • land and water resources,
  • plants and animals,
  • and transportation routes.

3
Subsistence
  • The means of living
  • obtaining food and shelter necessary to support
    life
  • everything that is done to "make a living"

4
Hunting and Gathering
  • seasonal migration to match
  • the hunting/fishing times or harvest time for
  • berries.
  • connected to social structure
  • What are the differences between hunting and
    gathering and agriculture as modes of life?
    (men/women, wealth, tribal size, housing)

5
Agriculture
  • The word culture comes from the Latin cultivare,
    to till, to take care of.
  • cultivating
  • clearing ground, irrigating, fertilizing, and
    draining.

6
Religion
  • Distinct worldview
  • human beings as inhabiting a universe made by the
    Creator
  • in respectful relationship with nature, one
    another, and oneself.
  • Each Aboriginal culture expresses this worldview
    in different ways,
  • with different practices, stories and cultural
    products.

7
Social Organization
  • Tribal structure
  • Roles, class distinctions
  • Political systems
  • Decision-making
  • Trade, commerce, economics
  • Prestige, status, rank, privilege
  • Slavery, leadership, political power, governance

8
Leadership and Government
  • Family systems
  • How leader are chosen
  • Who makes what decisions
  • democratic

9
Kinship
  • Relation to social structure
  • Marriage rules
  • Ownership rights
  • Extended family
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